array needed?

[tgavin]

I'm creating a very basic function for displaying error messages. So far it's working great for "single" errors. I'm having a bit of a problem with multiple errors. Currently, the function is called like so: [tt]failure($fail_title,$fail_msg);[/tt]

In my scripts, I then build the failure titles and messages
[code]<?php
// error encountered
$success = 'false';
$fail_title .= 'You Failed';
$fail_msg .= 'Do something right, will ya?';
?>[/code]
Which is displayed like:

[color=red][b]YOU FAILED[/b]
Do something right, will ya?[/color]

Again, this works great for scripts where only one failure at a time is possible. But now I've run into a script (form) where I can have many failures on screen at a time. I could continue doing as I'm doing, and just adding < br / >to the end of each $fail var, but that creates a display problem, as all of the titles are together, and all of the messages are together. I need to be able to echo them together:

[color=red][b]FAILED TITLE 1[/b]
failed message 1

[b]FAILED TITLE 2[/b]
failed message 2[/color]

I probably need an array for this, but am still learning about them and don't know how to construct it.[color=red][/color]

Here's the function:[code]
<?php
/* FAILURE MESSAGE */
// div box for error messages
function failure($title,$message,$colspan) {
if($colspan == 0) {
echo "<div align=\"center\" class=\"failure\"><div class=\"failureTitle\">".$title."<br /></div>".$message."</div>";
} else {
echo "
<tr>
<td align=\"center\" colspan=\"".$colspan."\"><div align=\"center\" class=\"failure\"><div class=\"failureTitle\">".$title."<br /></div>".$message."</div></td>
</tr>
";
}
}
?>[/code]

Thanks for any help.

[kenrbnsn]

If you want to use an array for your error message, you can do something like:
[code]<?php
$errors = array();
//
//
$errors['You Failed'] = 'Do something right, will ya?'; // set error
//
//
// process errors (if any)
//
if (!empty($errors))
  foreach ($errors as $title => $message)
          failure($title,$message,$colspan);
//
function failure($t,$m,$clsp) {
  if ($clsp == 0)
        echo '<div align="center" class="failure"><span class="failureTitle">' . $t . '<br /></span>' . $m . '</div>';
  else
        echo '<tr><td align="center" colspan="' . $clsp . '"><div align="center" class="failure"><span class="failureTitle">' . $t . '<br /></span>' . $m . '</div><tr>';
?>[/code]

Ken

[tgavin]

Perfect! That's so fast and easy. That's really going to help me in all future development as well!
I've always been curious about something: what is this "[tt]=>[/tt]" for?

Thanks!